Vrellë e Goleshit, treated in the volume as Burimi (Vrella e Goleshit), lies about 16 km west of Lipjan on the eastern side of Mount Golesh. The settlement is mainly compact in form, and its history is closely tied to population movements in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
After 1878 Albanian muhajir families expelled from Toplica settled in the area, while part of the earlier population migrated to Turkey. Kosovo Vilayet yearbooks from 1893, 1896 and 1900 record Vrellë as a separate settlement. Later decades brought further migration and demographic change.
In 1999 the village had 22 Albanian houses, alongside Roma, Serbian and Montenegrin families. Local historical memory also preserves the consequences of the violence of 1912 against the Albanian population.
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Source and further reading
Principal source: Prof. Dr. Jusuf Osmani, Vendbanimet e Kosovës 5 — Lypjani, Prishtinë, 2003.
Source entry: BURIMI (Vrella e Goleshit)
This page presents a selected summary from the published study of the settlement. For complete archival references, family histories, microtoponymy and the full treatment, consult the original volume.